Find below SWIFTT’s news articles, press releases, digests of scientific papers, as well as other outreach materials.

SWIFTT partner presents work at the DEARING 2025 workshop, co-located with ECML PKDD 2025

SWIFTT partner presents work at the DEARING 2025 workshop, co-located with ECML PKDD 2025

16 September 2025

Giuseppina Andresini from the University of Bari Aldo Moro presented the paper entitled “Reusing a BigEarthNet Deep Model to Map Bark Beetle Outbreaks in Sentinel-2 Forest Images”

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Webinar - Adaptive Forest Management and Policy to Tackle Climate Risks

Webinar - Adaptive Forest Management and Policy to Tackle Climate Risks

13 August 2025

Forests are at a turning point. As climate risks escalate, Europe’s woodlands face growing threats—from increasingly intense wildfires to the slow erosion of resilience. How can we better understand, anticipate, and protect these vital ecosystems?

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SWIFTT consortium meets in Tours, France

SWIFTT consortium meets in Tours, France

17 July 2025

SWIFTT partners met to discuss the the most recent accomplishments in the project's third year and the plans towards the conclusion of the project

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SWIFTT partner presents work at the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)

SWIFTT partner presents work at the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)

07 July 2025

Last week, SWIFTT partner Vito Recchia from UNIBA presented his research related to the SWIFTT project "Deep Change Vector Analysis to Map Bark Beetle Outbreaks in OpenSentinel-2 Data"

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Project partners meet in Riga to present SWIFTT’s current version to Rīgas Meži foresters

Project partners meet in Riga to present SWIFTT’s current version to Rīgas Meži foresters

02 July 2025

Partners received from the foresters valuable feedback and recommendations on improving the platform that will help shape the it to better match the needs of future users.

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Publication: Satellite information technologies for the creation of the Ukrainian segment of the international GEOSS system

Publication: Satellite information technologies for the creation of the Ukrainian segment of the international GEOSS system

29 June 2025

In this work, SWIFTT partners from the Space Research Institute of Ukraine describe information technologies based on satellite data in the fields of agricultural monitoring, land degradation, monitoring of forests and more.

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 SWIFTT partners organise PhD-level course using the knowledge and research results achieved during the SWIFTT project

SWIFTT partners organise PhD-level course using the knowledge and research results achieved during the SWIFTT project

23 June 2025

Annalisa Appice and Giuseppina Andresini organised the course entitled “Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Remote Sensing“ within the Study Plan of the PhD program at UNIBA

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SWIFTT partners at forestry and wood industry trade show FOREXPO held in the Landes, France

SWIFTT partners at forestry and wood industry trade show FOREXPO held in the Landes, France

23 June 2025

AXA Climate and Timbtrack were there to discover the local reality of forestry in the region and to speak to foresters about SWIFTT.

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AI Meets Forestry: EU Project SWIFTT Webinar Explores Insect Damage Detection in European Forests

AI Meets Forestry: EU Project SWIFTT Webinar Explores Insect Damage Detection in European Forests

09 June 2025

The webinar will explore the practical and technical challenges of using artificial intelligence (AI) and satellite data to monitor bark beetle outbreaks

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